Elfriede Jelinek Quotes
Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.
It is not enough ... simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow.
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.
As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing.
It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.
The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.
Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.
I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing
I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.
I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead
After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.
A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat or babble, but speaking in public with authority is still the greatest transgression.
Stealing isn't so easy, often it's hard work, otherwise we'd all be doing it.
Many young people are still driven to art, as in olden times. Most of them are driven by their parents, who know nothing about art—only that it exists.
She will prolong her life by the length of her story, even though time will wear on inexorably as she tells it, thus depriving her of the chance to have a new experience.
No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an ability to offer solace. Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.